AiMancaater Farming, Saturday, November 27, 1993
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Fanning Staff
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) The majority of Pennsyl
vania’s agricultural groups now
support or promise to work to
ensure fair trade under the North
American Free Trade Agreement,
which is set to go into effect Jan. 1.
The three-nation North Ameri
can content agreement sets up per
haps the strongest trading coalition
within the Western hemisphere,
and seeks to elimiate 90 percent of
New Holland
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New Holland Sales Stables
Wednesday, November 24, 1993
Report supplied by auction
DAIRY COWS 208; HEIFERS 118
AND 4 BULLS. MARKET STEADY.
LOCAL FRESH COWS
660.00- FEW PB SPRINGERS
1625.00-
FRESH HEIFERS 810.00-1500.00.
LOCAL SPRINGERS 885.00-1675.00.
UPSTATE LOADS FRESH
PUREBRED AND GRADES
1225.00- GRADES FRESH
1450.00-
BETTER FRESH COWS
1215.00-1435.00.
HERD 33 HEAD ALL STAGES
880.00-1585.00.
SPRINGING HEIFERS LARGE
925.00-1160.00, SMALL 740.00-830.00.
SHORTBRED
685.00-810.00.
OPEN BREEDING AGE HEIFERS
690.00-790.00.
SMALL OPEN HEIFERS
330.00-500.00.
BULLS 760.00-840.00, PUREBREDS
890.00-1080.00.
HERD 44 HEAD ALL STAGES
510.00-1400.00.
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all tariffs on trade between Cana
da, Mexico and the United States
during the next IS years.
Proponents of the agreement
contend that creating a free trade
agreement with neighboring coun
tries could lessen discrepencies in
relative values of products and
commodities within the three eco
nomics, making trading less
uneven and opening markets in
Mexico and Canada for the U.S.
and likewise for the other two
partners.
They also predict mi improve
ment in the control and handling of
hazardous waste in Mexico, an
improvement in the economic out
look for Mexican workers and thus
a reduction in the flow of illegal
immigration into the U.S. which
competes with local unskilled
labor, and better trade relations
with Canada.
While less heard as an argument
for NAFTA, some have said that
creating a three-nation trading
alliance in the Western hemisphere
would create a formidable power
to equalize the multi-country trad-
HEIFERS
Groups Support NAFTA
ing alliance of the European Com
munity, and counter trade imba
lances between the EC and inde-
pendent countries in the West.
Because of a failure between the
U.S. and the EC on agricultural
and other trading subsidies, the
international General Agreement
on Tarrifs and Trade (GATT) has
been unresolved after seven years
of talks.
A deadline on settling GATT is
nearing, but the influence that
NAFTA may have at the GATT
bargaining table could not be
determined by presstime.
Opponents to the NAFTA
agreement have said some
more strongly than others that
it would cause domestic economic
turmoil.
Citing fears of undercutting
domestic prices of domestic pro
ducts because of lower average
labor costs in Mexico, and also
predicting that U.S. manufacturers
would abandon U.S. manufactur
ing sites to set up operations in
Mexico because of labor costs,
national labor unions, some politi-
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clans and some farm organizations
had called for a rejection of
NAFTA.
Others have rejected the pact
because of fears of a loss of sove
reignty over labor, environmental
and other issues tied into the multi
national trade agreement.
However, as of this past week,
the national legislatures of all three
countries have approved the pact.
setting the stage for the Jan. 1 start
of the agreement, which ideally is
to set up a course for a gradual
equalization of trade, environmen
tal and labor discrepencies
between the three countries.
Hie approval in the U.S. was
heralded by the National Council
of Farmer Cooperatives, which
had supported its passage.
“Thc economic well-being of
the U.S. agriculture is dependent
on expanding market opportuni
ties. Mexico is a case in point,”
NFC President Wayne Boutwell
said last week in a news release.
“In just the past few years, it has
become our third largest export
market and today accounts for
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nearly 10 percentof total U.S. agri
cultural exports.”
According to the news release,
“Approval of NAFTA ... will not
only help maintain U.S. access to
this important market, but provide
for future growth opportunities.”
According to the news release,
“U.S. agricultural exports under
NAFTA are projected to more than
double over the next IS years,
reaching' $lO billion or more
annually.”
In die statement, Boutwell is
quoted as having said. “Such
increased exports will help
strengthen farm income, generate
billions of dollars of additional
economic activity, and create as
many as 150,000 new jobs. Clear
ly, U.S. agriculture, including far
mer cooperatives, will benefit as a
result of the approval of NAFTA.”
In a switch in its position on
NAFTA, the National Farmers
Organization said in a recent state
ment that it now supports the prop
osal. because it has been approved
by die U.S. Congress.
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